Well, you can certainly focus more on your work since superfluous outdoors activities such as running, biking and windsurfing are forbidden. However, if you are lucky enough to have to wear a removable cast, you can still practice a sport where gravity is virtually absent so that your feet don't have to support your weight (162 pounds in my case). I'm not talking about going into space or on board of those fancy NASA's parabolic flights even though I admit I'd like to try that.
I'm talking about swimming. I have been swimming regularly in the past month and it really feels good after a 2 X 1/2 mile session. Without a really serious training I shove almost a minute off my previous personal best on the 800 yards freestyle. And my goal is now to shave another minute off.
I also hope that all this upper-body exercise will be beneficial to my first windsurfing session after the injury. And I really want to score some good sessions before my 4/3 wetsuit becomes too thin for the season...
Three STS-114 astronauts give a simultaneous thumbs-up signal during an underwater training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston
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When I can't sail I get into binges of gear maintenance...laying all my fins out on the kitchen table and sanding every last nick out of them...rigging each sail and checking lines, taping tiny dings etc.
But I'm ridiculously obsessed!
Yeah, that's called obsessive-compulsive windsurfing disorder, Mike ;)
Unlike you, I'm a quite messy, my fins are all scattered around and I rarely sand them (unless they are really messed up), I'm lucky if I don't forget the mast base or the harness when I go sailing. Now I have made a checklist to avoid that ;)
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